[Re King James Bible. Shadow Girl: I can barely read that version. Plus my grandmother told me that it was written by King James because he wanted a divorce from his wife but the Pope wouldn't grant it.]

You're thinking about the NKJV. This is the one that was commissioned by the king that wanted a divorce I believe. I think it was one of the King Henry's. Crazy kook either got the divorces he wanted or arranged the death and/or imprisonment of his wives so he could re-marry at will. The KJV is the original copy written and translated by Shakespeare, from the ancient greek and hebrew manuscripts. If not this, he may have translated it from an even earlier english translation (which was then translated from the original greek and hebrew) when english barely resembled what it is today. It's one of these two events. This is why it's considered the most accurate, a direct english translation from the originals and the standard for today despite being a relic from the 1300-1500's where fancy poetic language was the common english of those times.

At least, this is my understanding of where that notion came from. I might be wrong.

The "fancy poetic language" came mostly from the Tynsdale Bible from which the King James version borrowed heavily. There were also other bibles the KJV used as sources such as the Wycliff, the Geneva, and the Bishop's.

History fail. It was not translated by Shakespeare, since there is no evidence that Shakespeare knew any languages beyond English, Latin, and a smattering of a few other contemporary western European languages. King James commissioned the translation of the Bible based on certain manuscripts, and it was translated by a large team kept under strict guard. Furthermore, while the translation was great for its time, it is horrible by modern standards.

Shakespeare was alive in 1611 when the KJV was first published, however,
Shakespeare had retired from writing by that time
There is no evidence that he had anything to do with the KJV.
Some of the language in KJV is common to the Elizabethan style of writing as one would expect.

Okau, maybe he got his facts wrong (I'm no biblical historian, so I have no idea) but this isn't actually very fundie-like behaviour at all. His grammar and spelling are fairly good, the post is coherent, and he seems fairly sane. What's the big deal?

Hardly surprising to find bullshit on Rapture Ready. The whole website strains under the weight of it. More and more is added every day, while they delete and ban posts from anyone trying to argue reason.

I don't know where to begin with this particular post. The claim that the NKJV was written by Henry VIII... the claim that the KJV was written by Shakespeare... the claim that Shakespeare lived in the 1300-1500s...

The ignorance is astounding, but not that new. The members are pig-ignorant about science, it makes sense that they are pig-ignorant about history too. These are the same people who think the world is 6000 years old and is about to end.

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If you did know anything about the history of the KJV, you would see how bizarre and ignorant this is."

Maybe, but his ignorance is really just not-knowing-history based, rather than specifically religious in nature, except for the thing he's getting wrong being about the Bible. Wrong? Yeah. Ignorant? Maybe. Fundamentally clinging to the vaguest and cruellest principles of his religion? No.

There's no maybe about it. And the fact that he admits he may be wrong, yet he still promotes this ridiculous misinformation (when a basic Google search would correct this), only compounds his ignorance, and proves how intellectually lazy he is. A classic trait of fundamentalism.

BTW. Even though this is religious in nature, a person can still be a non-religious fundamentalist (eg: political, cultural, anti-science, homophobic).